US Patent Office Rules Redskins Name Is Offensive, Cancels Trademarkshttp://www.businessinsider.com/us-patent-office-cancels-redskins-trademarks-2014-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:12:33 -0400Tony Manfredhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a2ded969beddec46dfb225Jim BossThu, 19 Jun 2014 09:00:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a2ded969beddec46dfb225
This will backfire big-time on those hoping to eliminate the Redskin name ... now Redskin jerseys can be sold by anyone, so instead of $60+ for a jersey you'll be able to get them for $29.95 or less (but they won't have any official NFL logos on them).
This is a great example of liberals trying to outsmart the private sector ... it will backfire!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a252d1eab8eaf46e4c2180Colton SmithWed, 18 Jun 2014 23:02:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a252d1eab8eaf46e4c2180
The difference between calling someone an inbred redneck and the Redskins is that the former is trying to be offensive and the team is not trying to be and is offensive anyway.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a2087e6bb3f76b536c6f19cpkWed, 18 Jun 2014 17:45:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a2087e6bb3f76b536c6f19
Yeah, but now the team will feel the pressure to just change it, because literally ANYONE can print a Redskins T-shirt and sell it themselves. There's also probably contractual liability with the NFL for teams to protect their trademarks, and now that this is impossible, the NFL will likely make them change it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1f765eab8ea15284c2188AlWed, 18 Jun 2014 16:32:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1f765eab8ea15284c2188
If 30% is enough to remove a trademark, 55% is enough to remove Obamacare.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1d88369bedd9c27b62c30How is this Possible?!Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:20:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1d88369bedd9c27b62c30
Can't believe this! Did you also hear the Boise Genocider's also got their name revoked?!?! Come on!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1c5a96bb3f71e56ccff9dfactcheckerWed, 18 Jun 2014 13:00:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1c5a96bb3f71e56ccff9d
and isn't it their first amendment rights? do you disagree?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1c0096bb3f7a640ccff9fRonBurgundyWed, 18 Jun 2014 12:36:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1c0096bb3f7a640ccff9f
Boy, that escalated quickly..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1bf286bb3f7f23accffa4xowivyhidWed, 18 Jun 2014 12:32:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1bf286bb3f7f23accffa4
Since when is the US Patent office an authority on what is and isn't disparaging? There's a patent for something called a Masturbation-Powered Motion Controller, among I'm sure other items that would certainly be considered taboo. Their job is to offer protection against theft of original ideas and products, nothing more. Now we have to pass their moral barometer? Well who's to say what that is?
I know it’s off topic, but our country is losing it’s freedoms. We have Donald Sterling forced to sell his NBA team. We have expensive health insurance forced on all of us. Even auto insurance is forced on us (thank god for $25/month Insurance Panda coverage). What’s next? Mandatory iPhone insurance? We have taxes on top of taxes and our freedoms are slowly disappearing. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington would be rolling in their graves.
Pick and choose...that's the way to govern. I remember America of old :(http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b7c1eab8ea5036291b27NOT CancelledWed, 18 Jun 2014 12:01:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b7c1eab8ea5036291b27
BI writer, Please follow your own link to the USPTO.
The Trademark is *PENDING Cancellation* NOT Cancelled. BI writers are F'in lame sometimes.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b6546bb3f7801accffa0AlesWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:55:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b6546bb3f7801accffa0
Better yet rename to WhitePride.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b631eab8ead531291b23AlesWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:54:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b631eab8ead531291b23
PC bullshithttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b3fa6bb3f7bc11ccff9fI'm just here to get mineWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:44:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b3fa6bb3f7bc11ccff9f
Disease, pillaging, mass genocide to the point of near extinction—haven't you had enough of degrading these once peaceful people who offered us the opportunity to share this once great nation? Oh right, it's America, where no one cares about anything except football anymore. If a name change of a stupid sports team helps 5 Native Americans feel a little better I'm all for it. They deserve it after everything their people have been through. I'd almost put the plight of Native Americans above the slavery of Africans. It's disgusting what human beings (namely Americans) do to one another. Maybe take a page from the first Americans and live with a little kindness, compassion, and understanding and stop making football all that's worth living for.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b3df69bedd8d11b62c31hahahaWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:44:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b3df69bedd8d11b62c31
Ah, yes. "Pandiculate", the bastion of intelligence. I'd estimate about 160 IQ based on his posting. High education too. Surely finished college, and most likely has a PhD too.
All the Fox News -- go to network for the highly intelligent -- spilling out of the many posts by "pandiculate" indicates his intellectual superiority.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b383ecad043b7687bc68Dudley SmithWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:42:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b383ecad043b7687bc68
The entire point of this conversation is, the Federal Government has no business arbitrarily making decisions in private sector matters. A civil suit could have been brought against the NFL, or any other professional or non-professional sports team by Native American tribes if they felt that strongly against the name "Redskins" being used.
The only difference in this case is, it's the NFL, which has clearly been targeted by the progressive left for not advertising ObamaCare. It sounds crazy I know, but the truth is sometimes hard to face.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b30deab8eac72c291b21hahahaWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:41:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b30deab8eac72c291b21
That guy's a moron. NWA's equivalent punishment was being taken off the radio, which carries financial reward for song makers.
This comment section is very typical for Business Insider. The majority of people that bother to visit and partake in 'comments' and 'thumbs' are plainly of the Fox News/Obama Bash/Good Old Boy crowd.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b308ecad04e86c87bc68grenadetradeWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:40:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b308ecad04e86c87bc68
I don't have a strong view on this, but i think the Redskins organization could have considered changing the name and use it as positive PR, and the fans would have been fine with it. Just goes to show that Native Americans in this country have to political will/voice/power compared to other minority groups. If the team were called Washington SpearChuckers, this wouldn't stand even 50 years ago. The fact that in 2014, an arguably derogatory term can be used and folks feel the right to keep using it tells you something about the state of Native Americans, and our [still] backwarded views towards them, in this country.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b1ab6bb3f7940cccff9fteddybeingteddyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:35:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b1ab6bb3f7940cccff9f
The USPTO just opened up a Pandora's box. There will be fight and the only winners will be IP counsel. Will the Raiders trademark get cancelled because it's offensive to Somolian pirates? What about Mongolian BBQ? How about Sioux City's SUX airport code? Or any McDonald family that's angry a fast food chain tarnishes their name? Dangerous precedence by the USPTO here. Head of the USPTO must've lost a bet at a Indian casino...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b14a69bedda706b62c32TMART13Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:33:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b14a69bedda706b62c32
Really??? That's what you bring to the table? That's your argument??
I think that it is crystal clear here who the "Big Fucking Idiot" is.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b0f8eab8ea8620291b21Average JoeWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:32:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b0f8eab8ea8620291b21
Solution: Rename to The Washington Whiteskins.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b0a06bb3f76908ccffa6krypticWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:30:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b0a06bb3f76908ccffa6
Not the logo, the "Redskins" name.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b0966bb3f73a09ccff9dDudley SmithWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:30:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b0966bb3f73a09ccff9d
Sorry, make that 50 Democratic senators now:
<a href="http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/5/50-senators-to-nfl-follow-nba-s-lead-and-change-washington-team-name" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/5/50-senators-to-nfl-follow-nba-s-lead-and-change-washington-team-name</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b04569bedd447eb62c3dpandiculateWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:29:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1b04569bedd447eb62c3d
Find a smooth reflecting surface, a mirror, a quiet pool in the woods and gaze upon unfathomably fucking stupid.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1afe0ecad043d5a87bc6fkrypticWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:27:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1afe0ecad043d5a87bc6f
Nothing to do with the President.
A clever use of the legal system to undermine the benefit of the "redskins" name by the Washington DC football team. It doesn't prevent them using the name, but they lose the ability to control it and to make money off it.
Anyone can now call themselves the Washington Redskins and issue merchandise with the name, though the logo is still protected.
Very, very funny.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ae29eab8ead717291b21ppipWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:20:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ae29eab8ead717291b21
Ah, the ever useful race card.
Here, have one, I have nothing to say.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1adee6bb3f7c878ccff9dDudley SmithWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:19:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1adee6bb3f7c878ccff9d
Not Obama...the Federal Government...who just happens to be working for Barack Obama...
Headed by Maria Cantwell, she and 42 other democratic senators are leading the push to get the Washington Redskins organization to change their name. This push all started after the NFL refused to advertise for Obamacare during the 2014 open enrollment season several months ago.
Seriously, these Native American petitions were started as far back as FIFTY (50) YEARS AGO. NOW the US Patent Office decides to rescind the trademarks requests? NOW Mary Cantwell is compelled to do "right" by the Native Americans? What's hilarious about this is, Cantwell has a high school in her Washington (State) district which ALSO uses the name "Redskins". Is she trying to get that school to change the name as well, which by the way, has 90% Native Americans in their student body?!?!
This is THE most over-reaching Federal Government this country has ever known. And guess what, it's only going to get worse.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ade56bb3f7ee7fccff9dbiffWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:19:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ade56bb3f7ee7fccff9d
Cue all the racist apologists, protecting their own future right to be bigots or racists. I hope you moron commenters understand that Snyder can use the Redskins logo as much as he wants--he just isn't entitled to any legal protection against other people using the logo any way THEY want. In essence, the logo is now public domain, exploitable by anyone who wishes to sell Redskins themed merchandise.
However, because the NFL is a private consortium of corporations that demand that their members maintain a vise like grip on the licensed uses of their iconography, the Redskins will have to find a new name and logo that will be able to find protection under the US Patent and Trademark laws. Otherwise, they can't restrict any vendor from selling unlicensed merchandise and further control the output of their endeavors. Some can now create a shirt that says "Washington Redskins--Dying from smallpox infected US Govt. issued blankets since 1845!" and sell that without any control from the NFL. The NFL can't have THAT because their league is built on uniformity underlaid with a deep desire to offend no one that may buy tickets, ads, or merch. I know that's hard to do when nearly every team is owned by a likely bigoted racist, but they try to at least APPEAR to be non-racist or bigoted.
As for the comparisons to the Kansas City Chiefs, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Florida State Seminoles, or other numerous collegiate teams that used a variation of the name "Indian", all of them have either changed their name (i.e. Redmen to Red Wave, Chieftains to Skyhawks, Redskins to Red Hawks) or, in the case of the Illini, Chippewas, Seminoles, Choctaws and Utes, have gotten permission from the various Native American tribes to use their likenesses. Nearly all high schools and middle schools around the US have stopped the practice of using "Indian" names for their teams unless they get permission from a particular tribe.
Bottom line--disparaging Native Americans with your sports team nickname and logo ain't gonna receive trademark protection in the US. Go find another bigoted log to hide under, you racists.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1adcfeab8eacc17291b21Hero's DutyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:18:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1adcfeab8eacc17291b21
I'm long lawyers.
There are quite a few Disney cartoons in public domain, including a couple starring Mickey Mouse, but Disney's been able to keep a lid on their distribution through asserting other rights they do still retain, and just general legal harassment of anyone who attempts to release unauthorized versions.
This will be the same thing. Anyone who tries to sell unauthorized Redskins merchandise is STILL going to be bankrupted by an avalanche of lawsuits. Whether they have merit is beside the point.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1acc869beddfe70b62c30WHAAAAAAT?????Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:14:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1acc869beddfe70b62c30
The idiocy of this move is dumbfounding!
This is indeed an example of Barry's adm. who also referred to the "redskins" name as an insult....well I find it an insult when gay pride cocksuckers want to shove down our throats how good is their lifestyle....They are a bunch of immoral AHoles who should stick to "don't ask, don't tell" and stop showing off!!!
Another example of decay.......an acceleration of US decline caused by the character we have as POTUS. The next president has a big job to clean the filth Barry is leaving behind!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1acb7eab8ea340e291b26HarrekkiWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:13:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1acb7eab8ea340e291b26
minority free pass? you are as dumb as a box of rocks, aren't you? They have first amendment rights. that's why they were never found guilty. Just as the redskins have first amendment rights. But that doesn't protect you from the pressure of the public to change the name, or to change your lyrics.
The NFL is getting enough pressure from people who find the term offensive, and they will likely change the name because of it. NWA didn't change their lyrics cause most people didn't care enough to force them to change.
Today: people find redskins as an offensive term, but are less scared of curse words.
wow, not a hard concept. progress moves us forward, which changes our attitude about what is actually harmful, and what isn't.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ac8fecad04375387bc66ObummerWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:13:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ac8fecad04375387bc66
Didn't Donald Sterling already trademark the L.A. Ni**ers?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ac8a6bb3f73970ccffa4Hero's DutyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:13:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ac8a6bb3f73970ccffa4
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Yep.
Counting down until America has the big epiphany: We just can't let people this dumb have input into the governance of our country.
American experiment: failed because of too many stupid people. Downvote away, guys. It's inevitable.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1abefeab8ead709291b23ObummerWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:10:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1abefeab8ead709291b23
Hey, I just trademarked "Inbred Redneck" so stop using it without giving me royalties.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ab72eab8ea550a291b23bill nyeWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:08:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ab72eab8ea550a291b23
Well they are kind of red(ish) ? Is that derogatory? I mean I hate to break it to you all, but we all look different. Is that bad? Nobody names a team a slur. That was never the intent. But now we can't say "retarded" or "illegal alien" or "midget" etc etc "The Washington Honkey Crackers"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ab3becad04033f87bc72GonzoVeritasWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:07:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1ab3becad04033f87bc72
I don't think he was applying for a "inbred redneck" trademark, so it really isn't germaine.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aaec69bedd8168b62c32Eric SafersteinWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:06:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aaec69bedd8168b62c32
The federal government AND the Washington Redskins should be more concerned about obsolete emergency evacuation protocol. Everyone in the stadium has a cell phone. This makes them vulnerable to intentionally false information (hoax evacuation orders, panic-inducing information, etc.) in real-time. Such a malicious act could potentially result in a human stampede. Learn more: <a href="http://agsaf.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://agsaf.org</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aac869bedd8668b62c3030%Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:05:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aac869bedd8668b62c30
Also, the official team name and logo will go away as soon as the NFL and team owners realize that they can't stop anyone from using the logo and sell merchandise.
Why buy an official Redskins t-shirt for $35, when Wal-Mart will have the EXACT same shirt/logo for $5, and neither the team, nor the NFL gets a dime of it...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aa916bb3f7b570ccffa1dwightgoodensboytoyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:04:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aa916bb3f7b570ccffa1
Exactly, you fucking idiot.
Both are used to offend people. That's the whole point. "Redskin" is a racial slur.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aa0369bedd926bb62c30dwightgoodensboytoyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:02:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1aa0369bedd926bb62c30
And how is that name racist?
This many thumbs up? Wow, you people are fucking stupid.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a9bc6bb3f79969ccffa9dwightgoodensboytoyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:01:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a9bc6bb3f79969ccffa9
You are a big fucking idiot.
Kill yourself.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a9adecad049e4087bc66valibWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:01:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a9adecad049e4087bc66
BUSH!!!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a99b69bedd835fb62c51dwightgoodensboytoyWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:00:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a99b69bedd835fb62c51
99% of the people commenting here are retardedhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a98feab8ea0005291b26floridiotWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:00:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a98feab8ea0005291b26
....and now you know why hundreds of million$ are spent to win a lousy job that pays about $400k/year.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a987ecad041b4087bc66pandiculateWed, 18 Jun 2014 11:00:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a987ecad041b4087bc66
Under orders from above, no doubt. This is enough to make me vote Republican. Well, not just this.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a95becad040b3487bc6cParadiseWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:59:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a95becad040b3487bc6c
Printing up T-shirts and other Redskin parafenalia as we speak.................check e-bay momentarily.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a8f1ecad04983987bc6630%Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:57:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a8f1ecad04983987bc66
Just accept that some people just don't give a sh*t about how good or bad a football team is or was, and they just don't want to be a caricature based on their skin color. YOU don't get it, because it's not offensive to YOU. But believe it or not, this isn't about YOU.
As much as I'm sure the Native American people appreciate that you are interpreting what is positively representing "them", the crux of this decision is that at least 30% (not the majority), are offended by it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a8d96bb3f79b69ccff9d1jmk1Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:57:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a8d96bb3f79b69ccff9d
I think if anything people will start using the term more now since its banned.
I'm a die hard Bills fan but I will definately be purchasing and wearing a washington REDSKINS to show my support for the team and its fans.
And yes..I live next to an Indian Reservation and most of the Indians are Redskins fans.....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a8716bb3f74762ccffa1You're joking right?Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:55:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a8716bb3f74762ccffa1
Obama has spoken out on this many times in the last year or 2, google it and see for yourself. The patent office works for him essentially. Reid and others who control funding for the patent office also spoke out on this issue.
Bottom line, if anyone does anything that obama or his adminstration is against, he will use the power of the government to attack the citizens of this country. He continuosly puts his idealogy ahead of individual rights.
Open your eyes, look at the border, look at the epa passing regs against specific industries, look at the irs targeting political enemies, look at the obamacare waivers, or the tax attacks on small businesses, or the regs for banking industry that target gun shops owners, or the school lunch program that allows schools to fine parents for packing the wrong snacks, the fcc attacks on the internet, of course his expansion of the nsa, or holders announcement that it's possible drones could be use to police the usa.
You are seriously ok with these types of actionhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a865eab8eade01291b21MJBrutusWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:55:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a865eab8eade01291b21
I take it that calling someone an "inbred redneck" is ok, but naming a team "redskins" is offensive.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a864ecad04c33b87bc661jmk1Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:55:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a864ecad04c33b87bc66
I know....people call me cracker and I don't like it.....but I don't get offended and it has no bearing on my life.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a81269bedde25cb62c321jmk1Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:54:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a81269bedde25cb62c32
They already tried getting the rappers in the late 80s early 90s.
The group NWA was arrested and jailed for singing the song "Fuck the police".
But because they were black minorities they got a free pass and the court said it was their 1st ammendment rights.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a7bfeab8ea7f7e291b23econ_23Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:52:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a7bfeab8ea7f7e291b23
30% equals a majority? Pretty soon people won't be able to leave their homes because someone might say something mean to them....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a72eecad04b43787bc66Just a ThoughtWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:50:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a72eecad04b43787bc66
Washington Jihadists
That's a name worth fighting for.....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a6bf6bb3f71360ccff9dJusta_GuyWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:48:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a6bf6bb3f71360ccff9d
Whoa Fuck No Yo... Them Bitches be coo. Day done come up onna Rainbow foo.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a6a4ecad04a32b87bc66Check that, dudeWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:48:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a6a4ecad04a32b87bc66
You may notice that Indians, Braves and Seminoles are not disparaging. Redskins is blatantly disparaging. Just as it would be to name a team the Ni**ers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a5fb69bedde956b62c32dugWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:45:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a5fb69bedde956b62c32
This is ridiculous. Cancelling a trademark doesn't stop someone from using it. It lets everyone use it.
What other team is going to call themselves the Redskins? If anything native Americans should proud to have a team called the redskins. The team has an amazing history and it reflects positively on them.
Sincerely,
Dug 'Redskins'http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a485ecad04bc2587bc67PaulsmomWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:39:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a485ecad04bc2587bc67
BENGHAZI!!!!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a44d6bb3f71257ccffa3Heck YeahWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:38:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a44d6bb3f71257ccffa3
I would start selling my own line of Redskins shirts but it's just too offensive.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a2f7ecad047d1687bc68GS_origWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:32:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a2f7ecad047d1687bc68
Guess which name they're coming after next my friends? Patriots...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a2dd69bedd7946b62c34sandsonniWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:31:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a2dd69bedd7946b62c34
Change the name to the Washington Pigskins.. and put a Native headdress on a football with a face..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a279ecad04e11c87bc66IslanderWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:30:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a279ecad04e11c87bc66
This would be the relevant passage cited in the decision:
"(a) Consists of or comprises immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; or matter which may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute; ..."
<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1052" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1052</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a1c2ecad043b1887bc66TMART13Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:27:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a1c2ecad043b1887bc66
This country is a f'ing joke!!! Awww, my feeling are hurt because of the name "Redskins". Big government steps in to "Save the day". I guess they will need to do the same for the Cleveland Indians, Florida State Seminoles, Atlanta Braves, etc...Government once again overstepping their boundaries.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a18e69bedd1f3db62c31damnWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:26:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a18e69bedd1f3db62c31
kill yourself, you inbred redneck.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a0eeeab8eab662291b27sftommyWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:23:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a0eeeab8eab662291b27
Patent & Trademark protections from the US Patents and Trademarks Office?
That's a laugh.
Elon Musk was right again. Patents are worthless except as a means of delivering tech to Chinese industry and as a revenue generator for law firms.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a04e69bedd203db62c3bmlambWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:21:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a04e69bedd203db62c3b
the country is piling on debt ($16+ trillion) no end in sight, is caught up in numerous wars overseas, and has more people out of the workforce than ever before.
but, yeah. let's focus on the name of an NFL team. while we're at it, how about we call dr. oz to testify about weight loss drugs? all in a days work.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a005ecad04c60f87bc66PoliticalPaulWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:19:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a1a005ecad04c60f87bc66
They've weaponized the IRS and now they've weaponized the entirety of the bureaucracy against "we the people". I wonder if they'll go after all the rap artists for using language that's offensive or disparaging.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a19e4cecad04640587bc67tmgotechWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:12:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a19e4cecad04640587bc67
More mis-direction from the Obama administration. Don't pay attention to the problems our administration has in the Middle East, our historically low job approval ratings, or our utter failure to pull this country out of Recession.